Posted on 10/28/2019 10:48:36 AM PDT by conservative98
A veteran St. Louis cop who was told to tone down his “gayness” to get a promotion has been awarded almost $20 million, according to a report.
Sgt. Keith Wildhaber said he was passed over 23 times for a promotion at St. Louis County Police Department and then punished with a transfer when he complained, the St. Louis Post-Dispatch said.
His captain, Guy Means, privately called him “fruity” and told a friend that the officer was “way too out there with his gayness and he needed to tone it down” to get a promotion, the jury heard, according to the report.
“We wanted to send a message,” the jury foreman told the paper of the huge payout awarded after three-hours’ deliberation Friday.
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sooooo can conservatives sue for damages, for $20,000,000 when the left accuse us of being racist? Being ‘white oppressors’? Being ‘white supremacists’? Being Nazis? ETC ETC ETC?
Guess our emotional well being isn’t nearly as precious as gay people’s huh?
gays don’t get accused or convicted of sexual harassment- straight peopel get accused and brought to trial for refusing the advances- thoguht everyone knew that?
Should have just told him to go be gay somewhere else.
Man you got that right. People who work a lifetime at high-paying professions usually don’t amass even close to 20 mil for retirement, but this fruit gets it for being ...flamboyantly fruity? Culture in sewer.
Telling somebody to “tone down the faggotry” has to be cardinal sin #1 these days.
In California at least you can’t get punitive damages against the government. The purpose of punitive damages is the make the defendant hurt for what they’ve done. So the theory is the government can’t be hurt because it’s the taxpayers who have to pay the judgment. I don’t know but I’d be surprised if that wasn’t a fairly universal concept. If that was the case, I wonder if the puntives aren’t against his supervisors in ther individual capacities.
Tooty fruity.
That’s what I expected to see on this thread, and if I didn’t, I was going to put it here myself...
His captain, Guy Means, privately called him “fruity” and told a friend that the officer was “way too out there with his gayness and he needed to tone it down” to get a promotion, the jury heard, according to the report
St Louis juries have become infamous for their huge awards to “send messages”. That’s one reason why so many lawsuits end up being tried there.
My last trip to Disney World, my wife and I when we needed a little adult escape would play “is he gay or just European” as we people watched in lines
Then the captain said he didn’t know the friend and they never met. The the defense showed a pic of them hugging. Doh!
There was a fellow who worked in our office building who was effeminate and a very snappy, fashionable dresser. One look at him and you knew he was gay. Anyway, I would occasionally have conversations with him at the coffee machine and discovered we both had an interest in old jazz. We shared recommendations on CDs and performers we found interesting.
He worked for an insurance agent in the building as an assistant and customer service rep. One December I noticed he was no longer around. “What happened to _____?”, I asked. “I fired him, “, his boss replied. —”Just before Christmas?” I thought that was rather cruel.
His boss answered, “If things didn’t go his way, he would throw “hissy fits” and I got to where I could no longer stand it.”
I wonder if that sort of thing was the problem with this fellow?
Try your game for the Electric Light Parade and see how that score rings up!
Used to play spot the straight guy with my kid... but I am probably a bad parent.
$20M???????????????? Never cross a protected class in America.
Is there a difference?
That's not hearsay. Hearsay has to be an out of court statement offered for the truth of the matter asserted. In this case, hearsay would be if you were using that out of court statement to prove the "fact" that the officer was "too fruity". That's not why it was being offered, though. So it wasn't hearsay.
In this case, that out of court statement (presumably testified to by someone in court), was being offered to show bias, not truth of some underlying fact. That's always admissible.
Also, if the captain was also a defendant, it is possible that even actual hearsay could have been admitted as an admission of a party opponent, which Is an exception to the usual rule of excluding hearsay.
So here's an example. Let's say you're suing someone for fraud, and someone testifies "I heard him say that he was deliberately lying about revenues to attract investors." That is hearsay, because it is an out of court statement that you're putting that into evidence to prove the fact that he lied about revenues. However, because he is a party to the case, and it is a statement against his own interest, it comes in as a hearsay exception.
This cop case isn't close, though. Very clearly not hearsay at all.
I wonder what his presentation on the street is. Does it provoke, irritate, invite attack? Or does he tone it down there so as not to invite trouble?
Then he can tone it down at the station to be professional.
Filthy rotten faggot. I hope that he goes out to celebrate his victory tonight at the local bath house and contracts a drug resistant case of HIV,syphilis *and* Hep C.
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Lt. Dangle!!
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